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Jan 05, 2006 00:23

so i just read another article on tony dungy and the loss of his son to suicide...and its all got me thinking about why people commit suicide...i'm not just talking about depression or despair, im talking suicide...the act..the moments before the act, the possibilities for preventing it ( Read more... )

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koolassken January 5 2006, 14:16:52 UTC

I don't know why people committ suicide. I had a real good friend in College do that shit and it still puzzles me to this day. I THINK I know why he did it but if it is the reason that I think, he really chickened out on life. I think that some people may go through things and think that whatever they are going through will never end and the pain, or struggle it is causing them will never go away. They don't take the time to count their blessings if you ask me and look at the things that are good in their life to counteract the bad. My problem with the whole suicide thing is that I have had some friends who constantly talk about how they wish they weren't here becuase some dude broke up with them? Which leads me to believe that some people just need some positive attention and suicide talk is the only way to get that....ok now I am just rambling so I will stop now before I dig a deeper hole.

prosechild January 5 2006, 22:57:48 UTC

like koolassken, I've had a friend contemplate suicide because a relationship ended. I was on the phone with her at the time, which was probably one of the hardest situations I've ever been in. We were in the 8th grade, so its not like I could drive over in the middle of the night and prevent her from slitting her wrists. But she got over it.

I think the people who make an attempt, or even go through with it, are in a place of pain and anguish where they can't see value in the future. Its hard to count external blessings when you hurt so much inside... where you don't think its worth going on. I've been depressed before (kinda am right now), my mom is clinically depressed, but yet... we've never thought that. Well I haven't, I can't speak for her. I have a fear of death, of the unknown. I think suicides don't have that... or their fear of what they know is stronger than their fear of what they don't.I don't know about the Dungy situation... but sometimes its not about what a person has, or what they've been given. Take anorexic women, they'll ( ... )